All I ask is that MS/Asobo "fix regressions" before MSFS2024

[MarcG 3,021]

Now that we're all well and truly aboard the hype train to MSFS2024 town (exciting isn't it!?) it dawn's on me that the current Sim will lose attention the further along the tracks we go (see what I did there!?).

Sure they've said that MSFS2020 will have future support which is great, the Roadmap before the announcement suggests so (unless it was a placeholder...), but anyone with experience of gaming & simulation history knows full well that support won't last forever and it's anyone's guess when it'll come full stop at the end of the line so that they can go full steam ahead on the new sim (ok I'll stop now!).

So I ask one simple thing and I plea to Jorg and his team:

Please Fix The Regression Bugs & Issues.

By that I mean all/most of the bugs & issues that weren't there in the first release and I include the multiple VR issues since SU2 (when we finally got VR support). The official forums are awash with them, there's no need to list them here (there's not enough room), many of them smack you right in the face and frankly they should all be in the Bug Tracking System.

Personally I don't care if they cancel all World Updates and push AAU3/4 to the next sim etc, please just fix the issues and bugs that YOU created along the way these past near three years. You have the chance to redeem yourselves from those past mistakes (read the form history I'm not gonna explain them all again...), the chance to tidy up the Sim from all the little problems it has, get the polish out and go to town on the bug list in one big final push.

That's all I ask, fanks x

[bofhlusr 463]

I agree. At the very very least, at least please fix those black lines in the water. It's global and it shows up everywhere.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/black-lines-in-the-water/443618

[Krakin 5,810]

No

[bofhlusr 463]

51 minutes ago, Krakin said:

No

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[tgsweat 144]

I'm curious, and maybe I have a wrong understanding of 2024, but if its going to do everything 2020 does and more, why is there such a concern with 2020? addons will work with 2024, with some dev updates i'm sure, so why not let them put the focus on fixing those things in 2024.  I'm going to guess that once 2024 is released, everyone will forget about 2020 because why would you need it? 

[Dermot McClusky 506]

I hope this was written as sort of a self-therapy session (just a "get things off my chest" sort of thing), because I don't think anyone is actually going to read this and change their development plans. 

[MDFlier 2,031]

I'd rather they leave 2020 as it is now and go full steam ahead on 2024.

Why waste additional development resources on the old version when they could redouble their efforts on the new one?

[newtie 537]

I suspect they already are and have been.

[Mike T 210]

For some reason Microsoft / Asobo is afraid to say what we already know - MSFS 2020 is a dead end platform and investment in it will be limited and then ended. They should just rip the Band-Aid off and state the obvious. It's time to accept the reality of the situation and move on.

MSFS will be out next year so we've got about a year to be mad, and then buy it on day one.

[Jeff Nielsen 1,386]

1 hour ago, MDFlier said:

I'd rather they leave 2020 as it is now and go full steam ahead on 2024.

Why waste additional development resources on the old version when they could redouble their efforts on the new one?

They probably have to give people time to switch over, at the very least.

[Skywolf 992]

MSFS2020 to MSFS2024 is Win95 to Win98SE (it is the Microsoft way)

[Ricardo41 5,958]

No, Asobo should concentrate on MSFS 2024. 

[in2tech 588]

Not going to happen as history shows. They moved on to other sim versions before fixing problems in the older ones, FS95, FS98, etc... Windows XP, Windows 7, I think there was a Windows 8, Windows 10, etc... It's how they roll. And most here know that as they have used the older versions, and each new version. Most simmers thought MS would never make another sim, after FSX, and then MS Flight. How many of us were so happy ( well not all of us ), when they announced MS2020? Maybe one year, decade, they no longer make a flight simulator. I am not going to worry about it till it happens. And then I won't worry, cause there is NOTHING I can do about it.

Now they might bring some of the Road Map items to MSFS2020, but who knows how many are sent to MSFS2024?

Enjoy the MS sim now, or don't. Your choice!

Edited June 29, 2023 by in2tech

[capt sl 15]

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

No, Asobo should concentrate on MSFS 2024. 

 

Yeah, concentrate on bringing out the next buggy mess. spend a couple of years toing and froing pretending to fix something , while breaking something else, then shock horror announce the next version. Wash,rinse,repeat

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by capt sl

[bofhlusr 463]

22 minutes ago, capt sl said:

 

Yeah, concentrate on bringing out the next buggy mess. spend a couple of years toing and froing pretending to fix something , while breaking something else, then shock horror announce the next version. Wash,rinse,repeat

 

Yup. The concern is that the same bugs, if it resides in the core of the code and is systemic in nature will be in the new version also. It could get inherited by a new version that is backwardly compatible to the old version. If it was detected in Day 1 and an easy fix in MSFS 2020, presumably it would have been fixed long ago.